Comment by conductr

Absolute stability in that manner is nearly never the goal. Plenty of web standards have been deprecated. They gently push things in a direction and cull what is seen as low value or high risk.

I'm not advocating for or against this specific item, just saying we shouldn't perpetually add and bloat future maintenance demands just because we want to support every single thing that's ever been built. We should be able to remove/delete/deprecate in a way that allows reasonable notice to those that could be effected. I'm certainly not advocating for sweeping breaking changes like may be found in some web frameworks, etc. We should expect that browsers move slowly. But there still needs to be some process for culling things IMO.